Berkeley

Both the Richmond and BART Police Departments sent taser advocates to the 10.06.2015 Berkeley City Council hearing, but neither is an exemplar of responsible taser use. BART officer Johannes Mehserle claimed to have mistaken his gun for his taser after he shot and killed Black teenager Oscar Grant, and Richmond officer Kristopher Tong tasered Black teenager Andre Little in the testicles.

The assault convictions of two Berkeley homeless men were reversed after a cell phone video proved instead that "ambassadors," hired by Berkeley property owners, assaulted them. Activist Bob Offer-Westort says that the Downtown Berkeley Association (DBA) has created a situation that will inevitably lead to further violence.

After Belgian scholar Filip Reyntjens read what had been said about him at Rwanda's Commission of Inquiry into 'genocide denial' by the BBC, he offered to speak to them himself, but they refused to hear him, despite their own accusations that the BBC was biased and willing to listen to only one side.